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Bob Cooke (Sports editor. Born, Paterson, NJ, Feb. 24, 1912; died, Riverhead, NY, May 7, 1987.) A hockey player at Yale, Robert B. Cooke became a baseball writer in 1938, covering mainly the Brooklyn Dodgers for the Herald Tribune, a beat to which he returned after Army service during World War II. In 1948, Helen […]

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